Dixie Bibb GRAVES

(1882-1965)

Senate Years of Service:

1937-1938

Party:

Democrat

GRAVES, Dixie Bibb, a
Senator from Alabama; born Dixie Bibb on a plantation near
Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala., July 26, 1882; attended the
public schools; civic leader; trustee of Alabama Boys’
Industrial School, Birmingham, Ala.; president of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy 1915-1917; active in the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union, the Alabama Federation of Women’s
Clubs, and the women’s suffrage movement; appointed on August
20, 1937, as a Democrat by her husband, Governor Bibb Graves, to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Hugo L. Black and served from August 20, 1937, until
her resignation on January 10, 1938; was not a candidate for
election to fill the vacancy; retired from public life; died in
Montgomery, Ala., January 21, 1965; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery.

Bibliography

Watson, Elbert L. “Dixie Bibb Graves.” In Alabama
United States Senators, pp. 127-31. Huntsville, AL: Strode
Publishers, 1982; “Dixie Bibb Graves,” in Women in
Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the
Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 2006.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present